Registries

We are registered at Amazon.com for you to get the most competitive price on electronics and hard to find items. We have a wish list at Anthropologie.com for kitchen ware and bathware. If you are shipping an item to us, please do not worry about gift wrapping. Thank you!

You may search for us by name and event date, 11/5/10.

For a direct link to the Amazon list click below:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wedding/S6TPHQG1JLQK

A sneak preview......Happy Valentine's Day!

Here's a little love from Shawn & I to all of you:

You will be seeing this again, so I hope you like it!

The best news of the past six weeks!

He Passed!

Shawn passed the series 7. He said a huge weight has been lifted off his shoulders. I'm glad he can relax a bit without feeling guilty.

Now he will prepare for the series 66, but this will be a bit easier.

A Hectic Week

This past Monday I started a new job - Edward Jones - and have been studying for the Series 7 exam (12+ hours a day). Leilani has been very sweet and supportive. She is committed to helping me be successful with Edward Jones, and for that I am indebted to working towards improving the quality of our life together.

Today, it was just a Leilani and Shawn day - spending quality time together. I told her this week Sunday was all hers, and we really enjoyed the day. We went to look for her a nice camera to use in an art class she's taking. Cameras are not cheap...especially the kind she was looking for. I did happen to take a look at some HDTV's while at Best Buy and Sears. Now, I am sure everybody knows how expensive the suckers can be. I am also sure with a few new 100k Edward Jones accounts signed up I would be able to swing it. Well, that is the plan. Anyway, I am committed to being flexible with work and my family time. Thus, I may work 70 hours a week with EDJ, but I will always make time for my penguin and Bushy a.k.a Bully.

Snow days in the NC

It snowed a few inches about a week before Christmas. It was pretty but I made the mistake of going out to the grocery store during the snow. Luckily, Shawn was coming around the corner where I was stuck on a hill. I am determined to master snow driving! We don't really get snow days....
What is funny are the piles of dirty ice in parking lots and shady areas still all over town.

Papa Shawn is outfitting Bully with snowboots.

He's already over it.

Papa laughs at Bully's expense.

Is that a Llama? With boots?

Picture perfect. That's Buster on the right, Shawn's mother's dog.

One month.

Happy Anniversary, Shawn!
Love,

Wubbs.

We had lunch with a couple, Al & Cindy, that will celebrate their 37th wedding anniversary  on wednesday. We mentioned our one month, to which Al replied, "that'll get old real quick."
I know!  Are you tired of us yet?

Happy New Year to our dearests!

Photo by Nikki Lefaive, New Year's Eve 2009

Ok, 2009 was a tough year for some. Despite the recession & wars, however, I would like to say that personally, it was a good year. We know it would be. We stuck to our plans, and it was!

I just know that it will only get better. My Hubbs and I are excited to realize our dreams and plans. As he starts with Edward Jones tomorrow, we believe as we have heard many times, that a LOT of hard work and sacrifice lies ahead.

I did a design project entitled, "Who do you Love?" It was a mural proposal on some old building.
My thoughts were that if you stopped and thought about who it is that you love, maybe you will be less likely to hate in that moment or in the coming moments.  Maybe if someone saw this painted across a building on off the highway, and got cut off by another car the next minute, that someone will think before the road rage emerges. Maybe if we think about who we love for a moment, we can directly improve the outcomes of our days.

I know about 5 other couples that got married or engaged, or found out sweet baby news in 2009.
So much love around us!

This year will be better. And we are ready!

Ok, I have become way to sappy...

Post-Christmas

Today, I am making a commitment to write something on this blog once a week. I think its only fair to show my love and support for such a wonderful gift from Leilani to us.

Well, like Leilani said, we are taking off the next few years from preparing holiday dinners. It will be nice to go somewhere else and chow down. Leilani's family does a phenomenal job at hosting and preparing holiday feasts. Hey, I don't have a problem with giving back, so I will clean some dishes or shovel some snow.

Grace, Leilani's sister, surprised me on Christmas with a hilarious video from elfyourself.jibjab.com. I am intrigued by how Grace comes up with cool stuff like this. Leilani has been busy all weekend metamorphosizing friends into elfs.

Its been a fun Christmas week with Leilani - aka WUBBS - from wrapping gifts, opening gifts Christmas morning, and having a holiday dinner with some family. Thanks to Bully, he behaved like a good boy after meeting some new family members.

Okay, in closing, I would like to say that being married has brought Leilani and I closer. This should go without saying right? Yes, but the feelings I have felt since that day have been life changing. There is a unity, a bond between us now that gives me comfort. Not that we didn't have a bond before, but I feel Leilani and I are inseparable. I look forward to reading and watching movies together on our comfy couch. I guess you could say this is how GOD
intended it to be. Being married has brought me serenity in knowing that HE will continue to bless us with our discipline that follows. What a fantastic way to live your life! It just keeps getting better and better everyday.

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Christmas come and gone!

    Our first Christmas as Hubbs & Wubbs, the new superhero team of Northwest Greensboro, NC. It was another intimate occasion, as we stayed in our apartment and hosted dinner instead of traveling to a big family feast. (Still in career transition!)

We invited Shawn's mom, two uncles and our friend Brah to a ham dinner with some delicious sides.

 A nice woman at Harris Teeter picked out a ham for me. Buying a ham-another first. Normally, I'd order a Honey-Baked (to perfection) ham, but we're trying more DIY tasks to pinch a few pennies. This year, we considered not working over the weekend our "honeymoon, " and not working two jobs a "vacation." We see bigger things in our future, however.....

I set the prettiest table. I do not have a picture as I left my camera at a friend's house. wah wah wah.

Dinner was so nice. I had the best day with my husband. Watching movies and enjoying our gifts, ad talking to our families.

I realized on this day two very important things:

1. I come from a very giving family. Shawn has always told me this, but now I really see it. I was raised with giving all around me. I just thought that was how people were. I guess when you love someone you want give them the world, or at least a token of appreciation in a tangible form. Filipinos are generous, so when you come from a Filipino family it just seems normal.

2. Shawn and I aren't cooking another holiday dinner for at least 5 years. We did Thanksgiving and Christmas this year, and though it was wonderful, it was tiring. So next year, we'll be looking for the big family gathering. We will be bringing a dish. And playing board games.

Ok. I realized a third thing: Sitting on the couch, snuggling with my beloved and glancing up at him, I got the giddy, antsy feeling again.

I told him I couldn't love him enough.  He responded with a profound truth:

"Our love can never be quenched."

It's true.  So true. He hit 'em on the head sometimes. Claaaaasic Shawn.

It's what keep us loving each other, coming back to each other each day and for eternity. I will never be able to love him enough but each day I will love him more.

This is what being married feels like.

And it was the best Christmas yet.

Our first ornament: A gift from Al & Luke. Congrats to Al & Luke!